Benji Fetch on Love, New Music, and Stereotypes

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Rapper, model and reality star Benji Fetch will release his first full-length album, “’Butchqueen 2: The Misinterpretation of Benji Fetch,” on November 17.

Benji, 28, is an up-and-coming performer from Marietta who hopes to deconstruct harmful stereotypes about queer Black men. Forced to move from place to place as he grew up in and around Marietta, Benji feels prepared for a life of travel but wonders what his life would be like if he’d stayed in one place. “I can only imagine if I would’ve stayed in the same place all those years that I could’ve really built a true foundation and friendships,” Benji said in an interview with Georgia Voice.

At 19, Benji joined the Army where he worked as a healthcare specialist and paramedic for two years. He felt it was his “only way out” after being disowned by his father for being gay and breaking up with his first boyfriend. “I come from a very, very, very poor background,” Benji said. “But my father came into a lot of money before died.

He was a hustler… I got to kind of see a little through him of what life outside of poverty looked like.” Benji recently joined the cast of Roku’s “Haus of Status,” an LGBTQ reality show where mentors known for their “bad boy” personas support Black queer creatives.